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The Pope’s fucking dead.
He gave JD Vance three chocolate easter eggs, exchanged pleasantries for 17 minutes, and then keeled over and died.
What a way to go.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
okay so it turns out that after all …
🇰🇵 🤝 🇷🇺 DPRK officially announces sending troops to Russia in accordance with strategic partnership agreement — KCNA
On the occasion of the liberation of Kursk, Comrade Kim Jong Un specially stressed the following:
"They who fought for justice are all heroes and representatives of the honour of the motherland.
In praise of the heroism and bravery of the proud sons of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a monument to the battle feats will be soon erected in our capital city and flowers of praying for immortality given by the motherland and the people will be placed before the tombstones of the fallen soldiers.
The fighting spirit and heroism of the soldiers who demonstrated the great name of the strong and the glory of the victors will shine long in the high platform of respect and honor generation after generation.
The motherland should hand down forever the soul of them who fought to defend the great honor and take important state measures to specially and preferentially treat and take care of the families of the brave soldiers who participated in the war."
the disbelieve the usa 99% hueristic fails again
OpSec to aspire to: Only discuss your plans after theyre complete, and you’ve won
I wouldn’t say quite that. There was plenty of evidence of North Korean involvement in the conflict if you looked at it from a neutral perspective outside of the Russian information space. I’m not even talking about Ukrainian or western information propaganda here, just neutral sources. This is more confirmation of something almost everybody already knew.
There was so much bullshit from ukraine about north koreans that i really had hard time trusting them: https://hexbear.net/comment/5813652
So many lies. How is anyone supposed to find out the truth from this storm of lies?
It seems like the boy got eaten.
What are these neutral sources you use? Western media was spreading propaganda from biased sources about asiatic hordes taking huge losses: https://www.hs.fi/maailma/art-2000011064341.html
Our aryan soldiers are crushing hordes of untrained subhumans: https://www.hs.fi/maailma/art-2000010847134.html
There was also this:
and this one:
The right call was to be extremely sceptical
I’m pretty sure I and other users here stated that DPRK is for sure fighting in Kursk and Russians were just playing coy
Yeah, I think most newsheads thought the DPRK send some troops but just discarded the usual orientalist propaganda from Ukraine.
Yeah that was the most reasonable conclusion to make given the evidence at the time, hence me saying that this announcement by North Korea is conformation of something almost all of us already knew. But there still were some holdouts (on here, twitter, reddit, etc) that denied North Korean participation in the war up until this announcement. I think some continue to deny it despite the announcement lol.
Also B on Moon of Alabama kept denying North Korean involvement even after the evidence piled up.
I know I was holding my opinion and doubting it until we saw the “interview” of the 2 korean POWs a few months ago. This convinced me DPRK had sent troops.
ogey, uncritical support now.
long live the people’s democratic republic of Korea.
This still doesn’t mean that they were fighting as early as western claims said. But I remember when Putin was asked if some satellite images he was being shown were DPRK soldiers he said like “well if you have pictures of it that reflects something, no?”, at the time I assumed they were just koreans doing construction worked in kursk or in the donbass. Could be that the plan was always to eventually have them see some combat
Stupid Kursk operation ran directly into Putins Legal-Fetishmus it seem . It was Russian Home territory so he could use “defense Treaty” with north korea and Conscript.
So 2 new Pools of Manpower to attrit the 1 Pool of Manpower that Ukraine draws from.
It seems like with the official announcement, the de facto “press embargo” has ended.
Here’s some more:
https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1k97hew/ru_pov_moscow_choson_choir_performs_for_north/
https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1k98eu6/ru_pov_several_months_old_footage_of_the_russian/
The whole situation still seems a bit weird to me, though. Based on what we know, they were only really involved in the capture of Plekhovo, which wasn’t really that important AFAIK.
Maybe they did underperform? That would be a bit worrying, since they were supposed to be the DPRK’s top special forces.
Probably given a minor neutered Ukrainian stronghold to assault, as practice.
Need to get your troops proper combat experience but also not get them all killed.
press embargo was likely for optics, russian allies participating puts pressure on ukrainian allies to do likewise. too far up the escalation ladder for comfort for most
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